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OCCAM'S RAZOR VOL. I ISSUE IV
NOVEMBER 17, 1970-UCSC
Published by the University Young Republicans
ON DISARMAMENT
The trend in the past years in his
country has been one of unilateral disarmament which has placed us in a perilous
position should a confrontation arise with
the Soviet Union. We have opened ourselves
to a position where we will either have to
submit to blackmail by the USSR or stand
the chance of being wiped off the face of
the earth; in short, our military capability of the past which acted as a deterrent
to aggression is now in a state of disrepair and the situation is deteriorating
further.
While many people believe that unilateral disarmament is the answer to
stopping an arms race and preventing a
nuclear catastrophy, the evidence is to
the contrary. The fact is that while we
have actually been disarming over the last
few years the Soviet Union has been stock-
piling weapons at a greater rate than ever.
While we cut our offensive capacity by
forty percent, the Soviet Union quadrupled
its own. The facts of the "arms race"
would seem to indicate that unilaterally
continued page 2
"Reform is not a synonym for leftward ho!,
and the first Democrat in power who recognizes this will go down big in the history
books. - William F. Buckley
THE POLITICAL WEED
There are many liberals and New Left
types who believe that marijuana laws
should be relaxed, if not done away with
entirely. They alledge that marijuana has
no ill effects on its users and will not
lead to use of harder drugs. They say
that those individuals who did move from
marijuana to the use of hard drugs were
unstable and could be expected to be the
criminals or mental hospital inmates in
any society. The "drug reformists" often
do not stop at marijuana. Many have expressed extreme displeasure toward the
brief imprisonment of Timothy Leary, noted
LSD advocate. It seems to be a very short
step from the defense of marijuana to the
defense of almost all drugs (speed being
the general exception).
continued page 4
FOREIGN POLICY
Chile recently elected a Communist,
Salvatori Allende, as President. Chile
is the first country to elect a Communist
to its highest position and may join
Czechoslovakia and Cuba on list of Communist block additions since the second
World War.
There are professors about who believe that an elected multi-party system
of government can continue to exist within
continued page 2

OCCAM'S RAZOR VOL. I ISSUE IV
NOVEMBER 17, 1970-UCSC
Published by the University Young Republicans
ON DISARMAMENT
The trend in the past years in his
country has been one of unilateral disarmament which has placed us in a perilous
position should a confrontation arise with
the Soviet Union. We have opened ourselves
to a position where we will either have to
submit to blackmail by the USSR or stand
the chance of being wiped off the face of
the earth; in short, our military capability of the past which acted as a deterrent
to aggression is now in a state of disrepair and the situation is deteriorating
further.
While many people believe that unilateral disarmament is the answer to
stopping an arms race and preventing a
nuclear catastrophy, the evidence is to
the contrary. The fact is that while we
have actually been disarming over the last
few years the Soviet Union has been stock-
piling weapons at a greater rate than ever.
While we cut our offensive capacity by
forty percent, the Soviet Union quadrupled
its own. The facts of the "arms race"
would seem to indicate that unilaterally
continued page 2
"Reform is not a synonym for leftward ho!,
and the first Democrat in power who recognizes this will go down big in the history
books. - William F. Buckley
THE POLITICAL WEED
There are many liberals and New Left
types who believe that marijuana laws
should be relaxed, if not done away with
entirely. They alledge that marijuana has
no ill effects on its users and will not
lead to use of harder drugs. They say
that those individuals who did move from
marijuana to the use of hard drugs were
unstable and could be expected to be the
criminals or mental hospital inmates in
any society. The "drug reformists" often
do not stop at marijuana. Many have expressed extreme displeasure toward the
brief imprisonment of Timothy Leary, noted
LSD advocate. It seems to be a very short
step from the defense of marijuana to the
defense of almost all drugs (speed being
the general exception).
continued page 4
FOREIGN POLICY
Chile recently elected a Communist,
Salvatori Allende, as President. Chile
is the first country to elect a Communist
to its highest position and may join
Czechoslovakia and Cuba on list of Communist block additions since the second
World War.
There are professors about who believe that an elected multi-party system
of government can continue to exist within
continued page 2